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sleeping and feeding moan!

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Enidosaurus · 09/08/2014 11:20

I have a 5 month old who doesn't nap. She will have a doze while feeding but that's about it. As soon as I move her she wakes up. If I put her down drowsy she wakes up fully.
If DH tries, she cries and cries until I get there.
She'll only settle with me breastfeeding her and it's starting to wear me down a little.

She's also started to wake more in the night too. She usually falls asleep at 9 and last few nights I've been up feeding at 11, 1,4,5,6.

I'm finding it so hard as my 3yo is very active in the day.
I can't feed in a dark, quiet room as DD1 would be downstairs on her own. I've tried putting her in the sling but she's too interested in looking about. She will have a short nap (only ever 45mins) in the buggy but that's rare.

She will sometimes take a dummy but mostly she's started rejecting it.
Recently she's been rolling around in her cot when I've tried to put her down. She's also shoving everything into her mouth so I know she's having a growth spurt and teething and developmental mile stones blah blah etc.
I remember this from DD1 but my goodness with another child running about all day it is exhausting.
Sigh.

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Shroomboom · 10/08/2014 20:29

I have a trick that works with dd (6 months) that might be worth trying - when I feed her before putting her down I rock her at the same time and don't stop. When she's finished and is sleepy/asleep it means that she isn't woken by being transferred as she's already moving iyswim Smile
Sorry, that's the only thing I can think of! Hope things improve soon...

EarthWindAnd9 · 11/08/2014 08:45

Watching with interest. Apart from the 3yo this is me. DS will not sleep night or day. For day time naps we either have to be driving or he will snooze with boob in mouth and I can't move. Daytime naps have always been bad.

Nighttime was good, he gradually reduced wake ups until he was sleeping through from 9-6 for about 10 days and then it all went wrong. He wakes up at least every hour, sometimes more. He rolls in the cot waking himself up and will only be settled by me picking him up (not DH) or offering boob. I'm so exhausted. I've taken to co-sleeping (which I don't really want to do as I'm worried I'll roll on him) in a bid to get even a tiny bit of sleep. If I persist with picking him up and putting him back in the cot I'm up every 10 minutes. While co-sleeping he will roll and suck on boob throughout the night. I've given up looking at the time because it's too depressing but I think it is about every hour. I'm broken and exhausted and I don't know what to do.....

Enid-how long did this last with your dd1 and how did you "fix" it?

Enidosaurus · 11/08/2014 16:00

I'll try the rocking/anything! Thank you.
earth DD1 totally different, she was FF from 2 months and happily settled with either of us. DH assures me there were phases of only wanting me though.
I think we let her try and self settle more but this time I'm worried about waking up DD1.

DD2 has now slept through a few times but last night was in with us from 3am as nothing was settling her other than sleeping in close proximity to breast. I fell asleep mid feed and woke up freezing as I had planned to put a warm top on and fell asleep I was so tired.

I've been wearing her in the sling and she's had 3 naps today so hopefully sleep begets sleep.

Its just time, takes a bit and they'll be sleeping through. Just the meantime means I'm on my 3rd coffee of the day.

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